Kit Burgoyne author biography, plus links to books by Kit Burgoyne.

Kit Burgoyne

Kit Burgoyne is the horror fiction pen name of Ned Beauman, who was named one of Granta's Twenty Best of Young British Novelists in 2013, and is the author of Boxer, Beetle (winner of the Goldberg Prize for Outstanding Debut Fiction); The Teleportation Accident (longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and winner of the Somerset Maugham Award); Glow; Madness Is Better than Defeat; and Venomous Lumpsucker (winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award). He has written for the New York Times, The Guardian, the London Review of Books, and Esquire. He lives in London. The Captive is his first novel as Kit Burgoyne.

This biography was last updated on 09/30/2025.

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